Category Archives for "Mobile"

You’re viewing a web page on your iPad or iPhone and you want to save it as PDF. How do you do it? There have long been applications (some good, some bad) that will do this, but with iOS9 it is (almost) built in to the operating system. To do this you will need to […]

Recently I did an issue of the DocumentSnap Newsletter where I talked about scanning apps that perform OCR. In other words, an app that gives you the ability to take a picture of a document and make a searchable PDF right on your device. Afterwards, awesome DocumentSnap reader Chip Shanley made the case for Prizmo, […]

Saving web pages to Evernote on an iPhone or iPad has historically involved annoying workarounds like third party apps or hacked up bookmarklets. When iOS8 was announced, one of my big hopes was that the new extensions feature would make it easier to save content to Evernote, and I’m happy to say that is has. […]

I am a big believer in having naming conventions for your files. Usually you need to capture a document and then rename it later, but it is always nice when you can have your file named as much as possible at the point of scanning. It saves work later. Scanbot is a popular scanning app […]

There is nothing inherently wrong with the email app built into iOS, but for quickly processing message there are a number of third-party email clients that make it faster and easier. I had tried most of them, but Mike Vardy tried to talk me into switching to Dispatch. I refused, not because it didn’t look […]

I have to admit that when Evernote announced their partnership with 3M and released Evernote-branded Post-It notes, I thought it was more than a little goofy. Post-It notes? Really? I am not a sticky note person myself, but I know many people are. What is so wrong with normal Post-It notes that there needs to […]

The other day I was on the radio up here in Canada sharing my tips for the best apps of the week. One of my choices was a new scanning app for iOS and Android called Scanbot. “Another mobile scanning app?” you might say. Yes, another scanning app, but this one has taken a bit […]

On the rare occasion that I need to send a fax, more often than not I use the Genius Fax app which I have written about in the past. Just two weeks ago I needed to sign and fax something, and I did it all from my iPad. The makers of Genius Fax have just […]

On my trip to Macworld/iWorld 2014, one my first stops was the Readdle booth. My goal was to get an answer to a question that has been on my mind for a while: what is the difference between the free Documents 5 and the paid PDF Expert 5? What is the deal with having two […]

iBooks is an app from Apple that allows you to read books, but it also makes a fairly decent PDF reader. An awesome DocumentSnap reader asked if it is possible to rename PDFs stored in iBooks and it turns out – it is! It is just not exactly obvious how to do it. View the […]

DocumentSnap was created by Brooks Duncan (that's me). I started it in 2008 as I was going through my paperless journey. Now I share what works (and what doesn't) so you know exactly how to go paperless yourself.